WICHITA - Kansas Democrats gathered Saturday for their annual summer convention known as “Demofest” with high hopes for the upcoming election. After nearly a decade of being shut out of every statewide and congressional office in the state, Democrats this year believe they have at least a 50-50 chance of winning the governor’s race, and perhaps one or two congressional races. They also are fielding what ...
TOPEKA — Lawrence Democrat Paul Davis, who is running for the 2nd District congressional seat in eastern Kansas, expressed skepticism Friday about President Donald Trump and some of his policies, but steered clear of launching any direct attacks against the president. During a news conference in Topeka, where he picked up endorsements from statewide labor unions representing police officers and firefighters, ...
Updated 5:20 p.m. Aug. 23, 2018: TOPEKA - A three-member state panel on Thursday rejected all but one out of 19 challenges to petitions that independent gubernatorial candidate Greg Orman filed to get on the Nov. 6 general election ballot. That means, barring any further legal challenges by Democrats who tried to keep him out of the race, Orman’s name will appear on the ballot in November. “We don’t ...
TOPEKA – Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt and Gov. Jeff Colyer are touting a federal court ruling handed down Tuesday that says the federal government must repay hundreds of millions of dollars to six states - including $142 million to Kansas – for costs they were forced to pay through their Medicaid programs to help finance the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. But Schmidt also said in a ...
TOPEKA - Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach won the Aug. 7 Republican primary for governor by 350 votes over incumbent Gov. Jeff Colyer, according to final numbers from all 105 counties. Those results were posted on the secretary of state's website Tuesday after the last handful of counties completed their canvasses on Monday. The final tally from all 105 county canvasses show Kobach receiving 128,838 ...
TOPEKA – Independent gubernatorial candidate Greg Orman’s campaign said Tuesday that it was confident Orman’s name would appear on the Nov. 6 general election ballot, despite an effort by Democrats to exclude him. “Absolutely, 100 percent confident,” Tim Phillips, Orman’s campaign manager, said in an interview Tuesday. Orman, 49, a Johnson County businessman who ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. ...